Living through another storm-snowed in!

Now that I live in the New England area, I’m always more aware of the weather and you should be when you have kids. When we lived in Maryland, we didn’t take it too seriously because we were near a 7-11 just in case we got in a jam and we needed milk, we could walk there. Now we live quite remotely, near all the wonderful woodland animals which makes it a tad more difficult when you want to make cookies in a storm.

Now we have to all our ducks in a row: canned food, lots of candles, extra batteries for flashlights, and an enormous amount of firewood and water! We always seem to pull through without any major emergencies, fires, or appendicitis cases (could you imagine?)

As I was waltzing my way through the supermarket, I actually asked people if they were ready for this storm, this blizzard of major magnitude. A woman with three older kids, teenage years, actually said to me, the last major storm we had like this in October 2011, was the one that brought her and her boys closer together. After the battery charge diminished in their Game boys, their family actually got close again. She told me the storm brought them closer together, even if it was for a short time. We smiled and I wished her the best through the storm.

The Weather Channel says that with winds upward of 50 mph we are likely to loose power; right now Boston I’ve heard is preparing for the worst. I’m sure if your like me and you’ve wised up after all these years (or maybe you were just born with it) you are prepared for this record breaking blizzard. I hope you are. Did I mention filling up the bathtub for extra toilet flushes? This is a MUST (our twins flush the potty a lot!) if you have small ones around or a small bladder.

The above photo is of my husband with our three month old twin girls. That year, 2010 from early 2009 when our girls were born until the February here, we received 60 inches of the WHITE STUF!! No kidding!! We decided to join the snowfall groupies and go out for a much-needed walk. We were lucky to run into our neighbors from the UK who happened to be out snowshoeing. It was amorous of them; an older couple in love, the kids in college, and us out with bring new babies, enjoying a weekday off because we were snowed in. A pleasure. Be safe out there. Know your limits. Don’t go out on the roads. Check on your neighbors via phone or email. Charge all those devices too and if you can get beautiful photos of this event for your children’s sake, they’ll look back one day and thank you.